The virtual ground has a V-ground out. That just means put all the other virtual grounds to that one right?

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Yes, connect all V-ground points together.

Note that the opamp making the V-ground is not needed since the (+) inputs of the opamps use extremely low current. Remove the V-ground opamp and connect the V-ground points to the junction of the two 100k resistors and C15 at its input.

Note that the opamp making the V-ground is not needed since the (+) inputs of the opamps use extremely low current. Remove the V-ground opamp and connect the V-ground points to the junction of the two 100k resistors and C15 at its input.

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Interesting.. I wonder why he bothered including the V-ground op amp then. My TA said it looked like a voltage divider at first glance.

So I did build everything... but It doesn't work sadly. The red LED's are always on, the yellows seemed to work as far as I could tell.. I couldn't tell if it was pulsing simply to anything audio though. The blue's just didn't work at all.
Even with that, the LED's were verrrry dim. Through a bit of testing I found that around .8 volts was constantly being sent out to the transistor so it was somewhat on the whole time. It turns on officially at 1 volt (very brightly might I add)

I think I'll try and rebuild it. I have nooo idea what I did wrong.. I've looked over it over and over but everything appears to be correct.

Interesting.. I wonder why he bothered including the V-ground op amp then. My TA said it looked like a voltage divider at first glance.

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Of course the V-ground is a voltage divider. It has a voltage divider at its input made with two 100k resistors in series from 12V to ground. The V-ground opamp boosts the current but it feeds almost no current to the (+) inputs of the filter opamps. So the two resistors and the filter capacitor are all that is needed to make the V-ground =6V.

So I did build everything... but It doesn't work sadly. The red LED's are always on, the yellows seemed to work as far as I could tell.. I couldn't tell if it was pulsing simply to anything audio though. The blue's just didn't work at all.
Even with that, the LED's were verrrry dim. Through a bit of testing I found that around .8 volts was constantly being sent out to the transistor so it was somewhat on the whole time. It turns on officially at 1 volt (very brightly might I add)[/quote]
The base of each transistor has a 100k resistor to ground which turns off each transistor when there is no signal. Maybe you connected the polarity of the 2.2uF coupling capacitors backwards. Maybe you connected the pins of the transistors backwards. With the pins pointing down, looking at the flat face the pins are EBC left to right. European transistors are the opposite. Japanese transistors have the collector pin in the middle.

When lighted, the red LEDs have a current of about 17mA which is fairly bright. The yellow LEDs get about 7.6mA which is not bright but is not dim.
The blue LEDs get about 31.3mA which will probably burn them out.

I thought that the resistors were rather backwards when looking at the schmematic. After testing, the blue LED's are definitely insanely bright compared to the others. Thank you for the calculation

The thousandth time looking through I can't find a single fault. The only thing I'm not 100% on is the V+ on the V-ground. That just means 12v+ right? On IC1 I made an H shaped solder trail connecting pin 3, 5, 9, and 11. Then from one of those pins I just sent 1 wire to the V-ground on the Virtual ground circuit. There's no reason that wouldn't be wrong... hmm..

Bah, I'll just try making it again. I just hope that the components in the circuit are correct. (minus the LED ones.) Or maybe I don't understand the circuit correctly. Anything that says +12V connects to the 12 volt power supply right?
That V+ has me curious though, as potentially maybe that is the source of my problems.

The thousandth time looking through I can't find a single fault. The only thing I'm not 100% on is the V+ on the V-ground. That just means 12v+ right?

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Yes, V+ is +12V. Then the two 100k resistors are a voltage divider feeding +6V to the input of the useless V-ground opamp that also has +6V output.

On IC1 I made an H shaped solder trail connecting pin 3, 5, 9, and 11. Then from one of those pins I just sent 1 wire to the V-ground on the Virtual ground circuit.

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There is your problem.Pins 3, 5, 10 and 12 connect together and to V-ground.
Pin 11 connects to the power supply ground together with everything else that connects to the circuit ground.
Pin 4 connects to the power supply +12V together with everything else that connects to +12V..